The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-01-07
The Pensions Voted by the
Senate Thursday.
$4,000 A YEAR TO MRS. LOGAN,
And, on Motion of Senator Vest. a Like
Sum to the Widow OF Gen.
. Frank p. BIsir-Etc.
THE FORTY NINTH CONGRESS.
SENATE.

| m6uOIld4S p1SScutSu III TIC DcudIC w
day and referred, were the following:
By Edmunds-Of the committee of
the general convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church, praying Con-
gress to provide for obtaining statistics
of marriage and divorce.
| BY Blair-A large number from vaTi-
Gus organizations in different parts of
the country asking legislation to pre-
vent the violation of the Sabbath in
running railroad trains.
Among the bills introduced and re-
ferred, were the following:
By Vance-To protect minors in the
District of Columbia.
Edmunds, from the committee on
foreign relations, reported bill to in
corporate the Maritime Canal Com
pany of Nicarauga, Calendar. 7 B..
Henderson brought before the Senate
the case of a claim against Mexico for
the killing of Captain Emmett Crawford
Tin command of United States troops in
pursuit of Geronimo) by Mexican
troops in Mexico, in January 1886,
stating that stronger and more urgent
bill for indemnity should be made for
the relief of Captain Crawford's heirs
The bill was referred.
| The Senate then took up the resolu-
ton offered yesterday by Mcpherson,
calling on the Secretary of the Treasury
Tor q statement of the indebtedness of
the Pacific Railway companies TO gov
eminent and as to the effect of the fund
ing bill thereon. FtH1 --a ''-t
Hoar withdrew bis amendment,
calling for an additional statement as TO
the disputed question between govern
| ment and the companies, stating that
his objection would be equally effected
under the originalresolution. HJ
Edmunds said the report of the Com
missioner of Railroads, General
Johnston, answered every question in
the resolution completely, fully and in
detail. As to the latter part of the
resolution, it requested merely an
opinion on the subject of arithmetic.
| II the Senator from New Jersey wanted
it, he (Edmunds) had no. objection.
The resolution was agreed to.
The Senate, on motion of Mitchell
(Pennsylvania) took up the bill giving a
pension of 81 900 a year to the widow of
John A. Logan, as maior-general of
volunteers, Mitchell stating that the bill
proposed to do precisely what was
done for the widows of Generals Han
COCK and Thomas.
Maxey would prefer to have some
further explanation of the bill. There
was great distinction between the case
of General Logan and the cases of Gen
eral Hancock and Thomas. who died
and had spent their lives in the army.
In so far as the pension was concerned,
he thought : that the case of General
Logan should stand on the same prin-
ciple as that of other citizens. If he
contracted in che army the disease from
which he died, there would be ample
ground for apension for his widow.
Mitchell stated that he heard General
Logan say he had been wounded FIVE
times and that he was undoubtedly en-
titled TO a pension, but had never
claimed one. He based this bill on
the proposition that the pension
is e. anted to the widow of citizen who
died from the effects of disease (rheu-
matic) contracted ID the service during
the war. He referred to the analogous
case of the pension given to the widow
of Francis P. Blair.
Cullom stated that General Logan had
contracted rheumatism on the battle
field of Fort Donelson, where he laid in
the snow all night. There was no doubt
he died of rheumatism, contracted in
the service of his country. a-
SeWell said he had frequently heard
General Logan describe his sufferings
from rheumatism on different fields of
the war. 1t was so plain to every
member of the pension committee that
General Logsn's death was due to that
cause that the committee did not take
the trouble to go further into thesubject.
Vest offered an amendment, fixing
the pension of the widow of Francis 2.
Blair at $1,000 year, asserting that if
the widow and family of any man were
to be paid out of the Treasury in pro-
portion to his public service, it was the
widow and family of Francis P. Blair.
At the request of Hawley and other
Senators, he withdrew it, and then the
bill passed without discussion. u II
Vest, therefore, introduced a bill in
creasing the pension of Mrs. Blair from
$50 month to So, 900 year, and at his
request the bill was Immediately con-
sidered and passed.
On motion of Edmunds, the bill to
carry into effect the treaty with China
for the suppression of the opium traffic
was taken up, and passed without divi-
sion.
The bill granting to the Kansas, Texas
Southwestern Railroad Company the
right of way across the Fort Hayes
military reservation was taken up and
passed. asa
The Senate then resumed considera-
ton of the Interstate commerce bill,
and Platt continued his argument.
Platt, continuing his address on the
Interstate commerce bill said: The
Senators were not here to make raid
on railroad property. They were here
to do justice by the railroads and by
the people. An unremunerative rate
was just as unreasonable and injurious
as too high a rate; and the railroad
companies would have to see to it
(if public welfare was to be promoted)
that remunerative rates for freight and
passengers were received. 1t was not
dealings in stock of remunerative rail-
roads that produced panics, that made
miliionaires and paupers in this
country. He claimed that the BIZ was
in the direction of forcing the coDsolid-
alton OF railroad companies, and said
that some railroad men believed in that
as the best outcome OF tbs railroad
problem. No truer sentence had ever
been uttered than that where comblna-
ton is possible, competition is impos-
sible.' This bill left open and invited
the worst kind OF combination
the consolidation of railroad cor